![]() Logging onto the World Wide Web used to mean delving down various rabbit holes. Documenting these worlds does more than highlight history that could otherwise be lost it preserves a time when users were creators and not products.Īs internet culture has grown more accessible, it also has shrunk. Worlds Chat and many other such spaces are relics exemplifying the boundless imagination of an earlier era of the internet. Despite the limitations of the site’s mid ’90s aesthetics, the possibilities seem endless. In roofless spaces, we get hints of a dark abyss sprinkled with stars. ![]() ![]() Our guide brings us through museums and labyrinths rippling with xenomorph-like textures. In the first episode of Preserving Worlds, a docuseries about dying or defunct online communities, we are given a tour of a section of the expansive but now depopulated Worlds Chat. ![]()
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